94 Chapter 94 — Ending Their Torturous Fate

*Warning: description of abuse*

As soon as she came close, Chu Ningtian gave her a resounding slap. She reeled back, her cheek swelling up almost immediately.

"What is this? So you've been secretly pining for this man all these years? You s**t, so this is what you've been up to while I'm out there slaving for you to eat? And where were you coming from? Did you want to go and see him?"

Each sentence was punctuated by a slap or a kick. Towards the end, he was throwing punches. She raised her hands in front of her in order to protect her face, but to no avail. Her head was already hurting terribly.

Chu Ningtian was still venting, "Or are you seeing another man behind my back? Don't I satisfy you, you s***t?"

Xie Weiwan's blood ran cold when she heard his mocking words. She knew where this was leading.

And she was right.

After he finished, he buttoned his trousers and stepped away to look at her with scorn. Her clothes were hanging off her frame, and her body was covered in bruises, many of which were bleeding. Her heart was bleeding painfully as well. Her tears had long dried up, but the hollow feeling in her chest refused to go away.

Chu Ningtian was still talking, "I'm sure you enjoyed that right? Behave yourself, or I would make sure I kill you with my own hands. You idiot, were you really planning to go back to him?"

He took a step closer to her and bent down , making her shudder involuntarily. He smirked. "Don't forget that I know all of your dirty secrets. Don't you dare me. Li Chuanmo might not care, but how do you think that son of yours would feel if he knew that his mother was a common prost****te?

Do you think Li Chuanmo will even consider getting back together with you when he knows you're just a gold digger? Or would you prefer I send videos of your escapades to him? Many men love your intoxicated look you know?"

He laughed wildly when he saw the look of pure terror on her face. It gave him a burst of twisted pleasure.

Now that he had put her in her place, he knew she would be obedient for a while. He wanted wait a while longer before disposing of her and cashing in on the insurance payouts. When he eventually got rid of her, he would make sure he did it in such a way that he would never be suspected.

The acquaintances he had in his workplace all knew him as a kind and easygoing man, but only Xie Weiwan knew the monster that lurked behind his mask and had been bearing the brunt of his perverseness.

He swaggered into the room soon after, missing the look of pure venom that had replaced the terror on Xie Weiwan's face.

How. Dare. He!

She knew he had been taking illegal videos of her and selling them on the dark web. She hated it, hated her life, yet she was powerless.

But how dare he threaten to bring her only son into this? How dare he threaten her with the only hope she had?

It wasn't as if she hadn't gotten pregnant in the three years since they got together, but due to his brutal assault, she had miscarried three times —which she didn't regret. She couldn't imagine carrying Chu Ningtian's child to term and giving birth. She would go crazy.

She had planned to bide her time before making a move, but not anymore.

She would prove to him that hell has no fury like a woman scorned.

Listening to the sounds of snoring coming from the bedroom, she smiled sinisterly. After a long while, she succeeded in getting up. She felt terribly dirty. She wished she could scrub off her skin in all the places he touched, but the best she could do was just to change her clothes.

She did not want to wake Chu Ningtian up with the sound of running water. That aside, she didn't have the strength—she had to save it for the work ahead.

She cleaned the house slowly as usual. She also made his food mechanically. Rice in the cooker, vegetables cut and in the pot, the little pork left in the fridge was cut into cubes and added to the pot to make soup.

When the soup came to a boil, she took out a bottle of pesticide she had bought to eliminate the cockroaches that often ran around their apartment.

As if in a trance, she added it into the small pot of soup.

Good riddance. It was time to end this torturous fate.

She smiled at him like a deranged person while he convulsed and twitched on the floor. He reached out a hand to her, silent pleading in his eyes.

She ignored him. When she begged him to stop, did he? When she begged him for mercy, did he respond? He called her a crazy s**t instead.

Perhaps she was really crazy, she no longer knew.

All she could see was the freedom ahead, and anyone in the way of her freedom had to be eliminated.

That night, a lone figure limped out of that shabby apartment and disappeared into the night.

By the time the corpse was discovered, more than three weeks had already passed. It was when the neighbors could no longer bear the stench that they broke into the apartment and saw his decomposing body.

The police was soon informed and an investigation was launched, but it was slow going as no one in the neighborhood knew them very well.

Soon enough, the police began to look for Xie Weiwan. Since the deceased did not live alone, where was the woman he lived with?

They searched and searched, but to no avail. No one knew her name, and no one could properly describe her appearance because she rarely went out, and her face was always covered whenever she did.

It was as if she had disappeared from the face of the earth.

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